Education Information
The “Revised” New Ontario Health Curriculum for grades 1-8 was recently made available to the public. There was a great deal of discussion about the report’s content when it was first released last April. At issue was whether the newly added sex education component was appropriate, if so at what age should the information be [...]
Collingwood/Clearview Trustee Caroline Smith blamed the province for failing to adequately fund the new program, which forced school boards to charge non-competitive fees.
“The Ministry of Education and Premier Dalton McGuinty sat down and created a plan for early learning, but they didn’t make a plan on how to pay for it. They downloaded it to the school boards, and we don’t have the money,” she said.
It’s not surprising that the SCDSB has decided to cut all but one of the EDP programs for 2010-11. Families don’t see the value in paying $25 a day to have before and after day-care when they had similar care the year prior for approx. $15/day.
Good News for Schools Closed classrooms will open up for French core programming, where locked classrooms exist. This is going to be very positive for both students and teachers. This change will support core French but also allow for other uses of the home classrooms while students are in French Class. School Basic Budget - [...]
Opening empty/locked classrooms Does fairness mean sameness? Does equity in school facilities dictate that every school should be a duplicate of the others within a school board? On June 9th trustees debated whether it was fair to open locked classrooms in some elementary schools, when some schools had none to open. Schools differ widely in [...]
The curriculum for the new Full-Day Learning Kindergarten Program has been released. The Full- Day Early Learning – Kindergarten Program (draft) linked from Ministry of Education site. PDF Format (427 KB) Other material tied to ELP including previous posts on the subject can be found here.
Starting in September 2010 the new Early Learning Kindergarten Program ( ELP ) and its extended before and after care components, will be introduced to 16 schools within the SCDSB. The program will roll out over the next four years under the Ministry of Education’s direction. The before and after care component includes care from [...]
This past year it has become an all too common occurrence that one or two classrooms in a school have been closed off and locked. Within the SCDSB there are currently 27 elementary schools with 35 empty “mothballed” classrooms. Total funding for classrooms is determined by funding by province funding and allocations within the overall [...]
News update: French Immersion Talk on Hold till April
This past Wednesday at a SCDSB Program Committee meeting, the issue of shifting to a full French Immersion program was discussed. The concept would include replacing the current Extended French program, grades 5-8 and secondary, with a full French Immersion program grades 1-8 and secondary . The new program would start in grade 1 and [...]
